Nidomain

nidomain is a command line interface (CLI) utility created by Apple Inc. for use with their Mac OS X Server. The description given by man nidomain is:

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The nidomain utility is an interface to nibindd(8), to which it sends all of its requests about the domains served on a given machine. It also can be used to create and destroy NetInfo databases. The nidomain utility will allow one to create multiple levels of NetInfo hierarchy, but it is not a particularly easy way to do it. One should use the NetInfo Manager application for setting up multilevel hierarchies.

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The following switches are available for use with nidomain:
-l <hostname>                  # [l]ist domains on <hostname>
-m <tag>                       # [m]ake a new NetInfo database with <tag> as its tag
-d <tag>                       # [d]estroy the NetInfo database <tag>
-c <tag> <master>/<remotetag>  # [c]lone a NetInfo database with <tag> as its tag
                                    # <master> is a remote machine that uses <remotetag> as a tag